and paralyzed two years apart.
"For former officers Mathew Crosby and Michael Vernon, some of those questions and others filled their minds when they learned that they had been paralyzed after shootings about two years apart."
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/separate-lives-common-injury/collection_0f128492-b15f-5b97-b8f7-5936af03d0f4.html
I went to high junior high and high school with Matt's parents. Both of them are great people.